Hardware design and analysis of block cipher components

Abstract

This paper describes the efficient implementation of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) mappings and Substitution-boxes (S-boxes) in gate-level hardware for application to Substitution-Permutation Network (SPN) block cipher design. Different implementations of parameterized MDS mappings and S-boxes are evaluated using gate count as the space complexity measure and gate levels traversed as the time complexity measure. On this basis, a method to optimize MDS codes for hardware is introduced by considering the complexity analysis of bit parallel multipliers. We also provide a general architecture to implement any invertible S-box which has low space and time complexities. As an example, two efficient implementations of Rijndael, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), are considered to examine the different tradeoffs between speed and time. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.